On Tuesday, November 22, Nashoba Brooks’ students and employees dedicated the morning to activities in service to and appreciation of their School and the broader community.
During their Morning of Service, they completed projects focused on thankfulness, helpfulness, empathy, and service to others. There were a wide range of projects underway that day: Preschoolers created bird protectors for the School’s windows, fifth graders worked with kindergartners to package hats and mittens for Cradles to Crayons, first graders helped to clean up the School garden, second graders wrote letters of appreciation to the School’s employees, and third graders recorded audio books for use by younger students in the School library.
In the Middle School, fourth graders heard a presentation about pediatric care from Emerson Hospital representative Katie Stockman, a Nashoba Brooks alumna, and worked to support the Emerson Hospital Coping Kits project. Sixth graders wrote letters to servicemen and women as part of Operation Gratitude, and seventh graders learned about community needs in preparation for next spring’s work with Heading Home, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness. Eighth graders packaged books to be donated to the Lawrence Boys’ & Girls’ Club.
The School ended the morning with a joyful Ingathering Assembly during which students, employees, parents, and guests sang together and heard reports about the morning’s work and recent service activities conducted by the classes. The School dismissed immediately following the Assembly for the Thanksgiving break.
It was a packed weekend on the Nashoba Brooks campus for Fall Weekend!
Thank you to all the parent volunteers, student ambassadors, faculty members, and all other roles who contributed to making this weekend so memorable for our School.
After weeks of hard work, Grade 3 students had the opportunity to present their Community Hero projects to their families and their interview subjects!
The Nashoba Brooks School campus was bursting with excitement Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6, as we celebrated our annual Fall Weekend.
After almost a year of research, school visits, interviews, self-reflection, and essay writing, the Grade 8 class is enjoying a variety of excellent high schools to choose from.
Alongside the book fair and poetry month, April has been a wonderful time for literature at Nashoba Brooks School. Sharon Draper and Jen Campbell, two celebrated authors, left their mark on the community over the past few weeks.
More than 75 parents responded to this year’s annual School survey and numbers were well balanced across all grade levels. The results of the survey are impressive and the feedback the parents offer to the School is glowing.
As Black History Month comes to a close, students and faculty alike celebrate diversity, acknowledging that a school is not only classrooms, gymnasiums, and fields, but also the people within these walls. Each year and at every grade level our students contemplate the presence and importance of different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. And this month provides community members with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be Black in America.
Rachel Adams graduated from Nashoba Brooks School in 2001. She went on to study at Lawrence Academy followed by Maine College of Art and Design. Now living in Portland as a successful artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother of two, Rachel shares her journey from student to full time artist.
Guida Mattison, Nashoba Brooks School's director of secondary school placement, wants to remove as much stress as possible from the high school application process that Grade 8 students go through each year.
Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, Nashoba Brooks School enrolls all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. Nashoba Brooks is an independent school designed to build community, character, and confidence in its students.